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Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-03-31

T. Zeiiio G Co., Philadelphia, Pa.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-03-31

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria,
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-06
Zeal in the Sunday School.

toOStOH
There is suburban church, situated
not far from a very attractive and fash
ionably patronized Stun, which makes
a practice each EaSter'Sunday, after the
Sunday school services, of distributing
the greater part of the flowers that have
served in the decoration of the church
among the poor children of the school,
This distribution is almost as popular
with the street children as is the Christ
mas distribution of gifts and confec-
tionery.
Yesterday afternoon. after the mass
of the children had been given a few
flowers, the Sunday school superintend-
ent saw two hoodlumish small boys
whom he did not recognize standing
near by wistfully, caps in hand.
''Well, boys" said he, cheerily, ''what
do you want?"
''S'm' flowers, mister
''Belong to the school? l don't seem
to remember YOU
80, yes, sir" said the bigger of the
two; ''don't you remember me? I'm
the Teller that run away from the Sun
day school last New Years.
''Indeed! And what is the connection
of your friend here with the schOol?"
80, he's the Gully that coaxed me to
run away!"
The superintendent felt that such zeal
should not go unrewarded, and gave the
boys handful of bright flowers.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-06
WINONA LIBERAL.
1t Offers to Raise 100000 for the
Winona & Southwestern.

Special to the Globe.
. WINoNA, May 5.-The board of trade
held very enthusiastic meeting last
evening in the interest of the Winona
IL Southwestern railroad project. The
convention to be held in
this city was discussed very generally,
and committees were appointed. Sec
rotary Phelps, of the Duluth board of
trade, was present and gave some prac-
teal suggestions in the matter. Notices
have already been received that delega-
lions would attend t0-morrow'S conven-
ton from Mason City, Usage and other
Iowa points. also Green Bay and Fort
Howard, Wis, lie Roy, Spring Valley,
Fillmore. Wykoff, Chatfield, Lanesboro,
Rushford, Saratoga, Fremont and Hart,
and very large and enthusiastic at
tendance is assured. The railroad COM
mittees held a spirited meeting tonight,
and completed plans to present to to-
mOrrOw'S convention. A subscription
paper was started at the board of trade
rooms to organize the Winona, Iowa 81
Southwestern Improvement company,
with capital stock of $3.50, 900, to COM
menee the construction of the Winona
d Southwestern road. Subscriptions to
to the amount of S125, 200 were received
at once, and an effort will be made to
raise. the whole amount tomorrow
morning. On motion the delegates to
the convention were authorized to say
that Winona would raise the sum of
Sl00, 600 to aid in building the road. A
number of delegations arrived tonight.
1t is expected that fully $50 delegates
will be present tomorrow.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-06

than he ever saw in his long life, and
the conditions of living are infinitely
better to-day than they were when he
first commenced 20 earn Il living. There
are more comforts to be had, and in adj
dition to that, workingmen can buy
twice as much food, fuel and clothing
and get as good shelter to-day for a
years wages as they could buy twenty
years ago with what they then earned.
Mr.. ATKINSON attributes this improve
ment in the condition of the laboring
classes mainly to their efforts at organ
ization and cooperation. And yet
he thinks they have not Or
ganized on the correct basis.
Instead of organizing as Knights of
Labor he thinks they ought to organize
as squires of labor, for he says the
sQuires have been licking the knights
for the last 800 years, getting on top,
and by anu By will bury them. In the
Olden time the knights belonged to the
privileged classes, and he wants to know
what business have the knights of to-
day to take up the privileges which the
squireS took away from the old knights
long ago. The privileges that the
knights used to claim in the Olden time
was the right to tell other people what
they should do with their time and their
brain and how to use their hands. Mr..
ATKINSON thinks that the Knights of
Labor to-day are making mistake in
attempting TO assert for themselves the
same privileges. In his opinion they
have no right to compel men to join their
clubs and to obey their rules, and to
compel them to work or quit work when
they do not wish to do so. They don't
want master workmen or masters of any
kind to order them around. All they
want is a set of non-commiSsioned Off
GERS, corpOralS and SergeantS, to keep
them in line and to keep them all
up to the best work. Mr.. ATKIN-
son thinks that when the working
men organize on this basis every men,
Der will get higher wages, because he
will be the best man of his kind, and
each one will be man who knows how
to make his own bargains and to man
age his own affairs.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-06
A New Aspect Given the Great Problems
of TranscOntinental Railway
Traffic.
The Canadian Pacific Now Offers to Join
Hands With Its Rivals in the
~ States.
Arrangements Perfected For Beginning
l'the Construction of New Line
III In Dakota.
Winona Citizens Offer to Give Sl0e, 900
81 to Further the Winona & South
n western Project.

CHICAGO, May 5.-All the great prob
lens of transcentinental railroad traffic
we've given an entirely new aspect at a
meeting held here to-day. The meeting
was composed of representatives of each
ofthe various overland railroads, and
was assembled for the stated purpose of
securing harmonious action in estab-
fishing rates and avoiding competition.
Proceedings began by the election Of
Traffic Manager Kimball, of the Union
Pacific, .as chairman. After genera.
discussion regarding the object of the
meeting, a committee was appointed to
draft a plan of organization and report
it to the meeting tomorrow. Then
came the important development
1t was nothing less than an
expression of willingness. from the
Canadian Pacific, to join with the other
roads and become member of their
association. Heretofore tlat road has
stood aloof, preferring to fight for bust
ness to and from California by cutting
rates below the tariff of the American
roads. 1t now agrees to come in, pro-
yiding it is allowed freight and passen-
ger differentials to compensate it for its
disadvantages of the long route. These
terms will doubtless be accepted if an
agreement can be reached as to the
lesser rates it will be privileged to
charge. Pending a report from the
committee on organization the meeting
adjourned till tomorrow
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-06
WEST VIRGINIA'S SENATOR.

The West Virginia senatorial dead
lock was brought to an end yesterday
by the election of Judge CHARLES
JAMES FAULKNER to succeed Mr..
CAMDEN in the United States senate.
Judge FAULKNER is comparatively
young man and has never held a pOlit-
zeal office. He is lawyer of fine repu-
tation, and has for several years held
the office of circuit judge in his state.
He is the son of the late CHARLES
JAMES FAULKNER, who was minister
to France during President BUCHAN-
ANS administration, and for many
years a distinguished member of the ma
tional house of representatives. AL
though he has never held a polit-
ical Office, Senator-elect FAULKNER
has always taken an active part in the
politics of his state and before his eleva-
ton to the bench was a member of the
Democratic state central committee.
Doubtless Mr.. LUCAS, who claims to
be senator by appointment, will contest
Mr.. FAULKNER'S seat in the senate, but
with hardly show of success. The
Democratic side of the senate will gain
valuable member in Judge FAULKNER,
whose talent and learning will entitle
him to the prominence which he is sure
to gain.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-06
Giving Mary Ann a Show.
Harper'S Weekly.


A young lady told me once of attend
ing little Catholic church in the coun-
try near where she was passing the
summer. Being regular attendant at
large city church of that faith, she
was painfully conscious of the florid
and pretentiOus character of the music
attempted by the ambitious little choir,
and of their absolute hopeless inability
to perform it. The relation between
the pastor and the congregation was ev-
identity of the simplest and most unaf-
fected nature. In the ''Gloria'' there
occurred a long and snowy soprano
solo, in cheap imitation of the cheap
Italian style. The young woman who
attempted it sang gayly on till the cler-
gyman evidently thought she had en-
joyed her fair share of attention and
glory. Accordingly he raised his hand
as signal, and the music ceased
D"I.et that young girl with the red
feather have done singin', and let Mary
Ann Guilty sing the rest" There was
little hesitation in the choir, and he
resumed: The service will not go on
tilllMary Ann has show
Accordingly Mary Ann took her in
nings, and the young girl with the red
feather was left nowhere.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-06
A Booth at the White House.

Cincinnati Enquirer.
To resume, upon the presidents invi-
tation, Monday morning the ladies'
dressed and the men put on their walk
ing suits and were carried to the White
house, only a square distant, in the Ar
lington omnibuseS. The principal per-
son, next to Mr.. Palmer. in the party
was Agnes Booth. She had with her
the son of Junius Brutas Booth, jr., who
was born in South Carolina, just after
his father reached the United States.
He was the second son of old Booth, the
first son having d different mother.
This first son lived some time in the
United States, and his mother got a
divorce from the actor. 1t follows that
all the subsequent Booths were not
legitimate until their father was made
free to marry again by his first wife's
death. This first wife was a young Bel
gian woman, who had become ac-
quainted with old Booth when he was a
young man, somewhere about 1914.
With Agnes went to the White house
her son, very handsome young boy,
with the expressive features of both his
mother and his grandfather. | think
that none of the Booth family until to-
day have been at the executive man
sion, though twenty-five years have
passed since Lincoln died.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-06
Tea With Sarah Bernhardt.

Olive Logan.
Sarah Bernhard has the faculty of
making of herself the topic of the time
wherever she goes. Her art, her looks,
her gowns, her talk, all have a positive
interest. / supped with her in Wash
ington and listened with fascinated
pleasure to the luscious tones of her
golden voice., warbling her impressions
of the national capital. She says she
would not live in Washington for any
thing in the world. sit is so triste, so
triste," she walled, clutching her gar
net-c0lorcd bang deSparingly, and roll
ing her sapphire-hued eyes agonizingly
toward the ceiling. ''But the magnifi-
cent architecture" / urged. True"
she reioined, ''but no people in the
streets! TriSte! Triste!" remember
that Theresa 'ieitiens, the great opera
singer. spoke i'll exactly the same terms
Of Washington when i took her to the
White house to sing before President
Grant and family. ''There is splendid
town here" she said, ''but where are
the people who inhabit it? Are they all
asleep, waiting for the enchanted horn
to blow to wake them up?" l assured
her the average Washingtonian was
quite capable of blowing his own horn,
and was indeed generally considered as
wide awake an individual as any in
America. but the streets are as de-
serted as if there were the plague here, -
she replied.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-06
THREE LOAFERS.

Three loafers stood out on the streets all day,
And talked, when they should have been
looking for work;
The fruits of hard labor they gladly eat,
But labor itself is horror they shirk.
For men will loaf and complain of hard
times,
Accusing the rich men of all sorts of crimes,
While the bright world lies before them.
Three wives stood over their washtubS grim,
They washed and they scrubbed till the sun
went down;
Each thought of the vagrant who called her
wife
And, patiently struggled her sorrow to
drown.
For women must work and men must eat,
And somebody has to make both ends meet
And the landlord calls in the morning.
Three ''drunks" lay out stiff in the station
house
Lay there in their cells ut the break of day
Three poor wives camedown with their hard
earned mites
The fines of these lords of creation to pay
For woman's devotion is part of her life,
The bigger the brute the more faithful the
wife;
And so twill go on forever.
Sam X. Hodgdon.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-06
A Homc-Made Carpet stretcher

A cheap and serviceable carpet
Strctcher can be made by using the
leather and teeth of common horse
card, which costs but 10 cents. Remove
the leather from the back of the card.
Cut piece of 2X4 pine scanting the
length of the leather. Bevel one side so
that the thin edge will be but a half inch,
the bevel extending to within a half
inch of the thick edge. Bore hole
with three-quarter inch bit in the thick
edge for the handle. In mailing
the leather, nail first the lower
edge OH the thin edge of
the beveled block, and then
bend over and nail firmly to the beveled
side. Fit handle in the hole and the
Stretcher is completed. A person can
put his full strength upon it in stretch
ing carpet without any danger of tear
ing 1t OF pulling out threads, since the
points of attachment are so numerous,
and no one of them is strong enough to
break or pull out a thread. Handles of
different lengths can be provided, so
that if desired, one can stand at one edge
of the carpet and apply the stretcher to
the other, thus giving an even tension
to the whole length.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-06
Another Legal Oninion.

DETROIT, May 5.-Legal counsel for
the Merchants and Manufacturers Ex-
change has made his report OH the inter
state law. The opinion will govern the
exchange in its attitude toward the
Michigan Central railroad, which is
charged with unreasonable discrimina-
ton against commercial travellers. The
attorney reported that he saw nothing
extraordinary about the measure; that
the main parts are quite clear. and the
first three sections contain nothing new,
all being found in the established COM
mon law decisions. Heretofore these,
decisions have been scattered and un-
wieldly. ThebiH boils them down, puts
them in concise shape and attaches pen
alties which will insure obedience. He
holds that the law merely prohibits un-
just and unreasonable determinations.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-06

written by gentlemen intimately as
sociated with the Plaindealer of that
city, is nevertheless true. The facts in
the case in regard to the sentiment at
Grand Forks, are that the selection of
Mr.. Pierce is sought 10y few scheming
politicians of the city and opposed by
those members of the community who
have the welfare of the university at
heart. The main reason that the Plain
dealer desires the election of the eX-
governor is that it will thereby insure
for itself the patronage of the institu-
ton. MIR. Pierce and the Piaindealer
are well known friends; but the latter
only eXerts itself for money, and its at
titude in regard to the university is de-
termined solely by the money there is
in il.
While your correspondent admits that
he is not we'll enough informed concern
ing MIR. Pierce's qualifications for the
position to venture an opinion as to his
fitness,it is yet significant fact that the
community interested in the public good
do not wish him placed at the head of
the university. The present inconveni-
emit location of the building is owing to
the efforts of certain enterpriSing real
estate men to boom their property, and
the citizens feel that the future manage
ment should not be entrusted to p0liti-
cal SehemerS. or real estate sharks.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-06
BAR. 4 Their.
oLD-TINrE DEMOCRACY,

There is great deal of old-fashioned
Democracy in the state platform ado, ted
by the Kentucky Democrats. 1t has
the old Independence bell ring about it.
1t SmackS of the good old days when the
love of constitutional government was
dcep-rooted principle in the national
heart. The keynote of the whole plat
form was struck by Mr.. WATTERsoN in
his admirable address, when he said it
was Il sturdy clinging to the idea that
the government belongs TO too many and
Is not the eNcluSiyeproperty of the few.
The departure from that idea is what
has involved the nation in all the
troubles OF recent years. The growth
of monopoly on the one hand and an
archiSm on the other are the logical re-
suits OF our losing sight of this funda-
mental principle of all free govern
mentS. The catalogue of political nos
trumS which Mr.. WATTERsoN referred
to is fair picture of the evils which
have resulted from the abandonment
of our old-time Democracy. The
protection tonic, the civil service elixir,
the pauper liniment, the educational
capsule, the prohibition porous plaster,
and the thousand and one other ouack
remedies which have been invented bv
the political doctors, are all the out
growth of the SubverSion of old-time
Democratic ideas. 1t is gratifying to
observe that, Notwithstanding all the
political decentralization of the age, that
there is still one Democratic tribe who
has not bowed the knee to BAAI.. The
ark of the Democratic covenant has
been hid away all these troublous times
down among the blue grass hills of old
Kentucky. Within its sacred precincts
has been stored that balm of Gilead
which is to be the healing of the nation.
The simple Republican structure which
belonged to our ancestors is to be re-
stored to us. We are to return to that con-
stitutional system which was conceived
in the right of man to govern himself
and which was brought forth to meet
the evil that mankind is governed too
much. That is the very essence of
Democracy. We are indebted to those
1wO eminent high priests of our faith,
MeSSrS. CARLISLE and WATTERsoN,
INTO whose custody the Democratic ark
mas been committed, for having brought
1t back in safety to the Democratic Is
rael. They have constructed a plat
form upon which freedom loving
world can stay. 1t is the platform upon
which the national Democracy will
stand and will continue to control the
deStinieS of the nation for a long time
to come
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-06
Chips From the Ties.

Mr.. Dixon, of the Milwaukee Il ST. Paul
road, returned yesterday from three weeks
Northern Pacific and returned on the Cana
dian Pacific. He says that all the towns on
the Pacific coast seem to be remarkably pros.
porous, and that large population is going
into washington territory. Several railroads
are pointing towards Helena Mont, which
has started a big boom there. Spokane
Fails is also attracting great deal of atten-
ton and is growing rapidly. The same may
be said of Seat ! and Tacoma. In short from
Helena west and along the coast there is
great activity and an abundance of evidence
of prosperity.
b The Omaha road has published a special
tariff on paper Cprint news, Wrapping
loads between Eau Claire, Wis, and st. Paul.
Minneapolis, Minnesota Transfer or saltwater
Mimi, on car load lots of 100 pounds 1Oc :
'on less than car load lots zoe. Between
Ashland, Washburn: Bayfield, and Superior
Wis and Dulath, Mimi, of zoe on car load
lots and SOC on less than load lots The
rates named above will also apply between
all stations intermediate between Eau Claire
Wis, and stations to which rates are given.
The Manitoba road has commenced con-
structing railroad shops at Minot, and has up
the frame of one section of the building, 7SX
50. The machinery, consisting of large
double boilers and Il hundred-horse power
engine, has already been shipped. and will
be there in few days. In addition to the
shops the company will add five stalls to the
round house, atfording accommodation for
thirty engines.
On the 18th inst. the st. Paul & Duluth
road will put into effect new sleeping car
rates between st. Paul or Minneapolis and
Duluth, which will be quite n reduction. as
follows: Upper or lower berths, 81 so, for
merly 50; sections So, formerly $4
The Duluth, Huron Il Denver road, about
which there has been so much talk, is utterly
abandoned.
George Clayton, Northwestern passenger
agent of the Wabash, st. Louis & Pacific, is
in st. Paul.
+. P. Weymouth, superintendent of the
Idaho division of the Northern Pacific, is in
St. Paul.
Mr.. Clough, of the Northern Pacific, is
expected back from Chicago to-day.
The MoOrhead d. Southern road has been
surveyed as far as McCauleyville.
Traffic Manager Hannaford is expected
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-06
HOW HE DID 1T.
The Story Told by II Husband With
a Poor Memory.


Poor Memory.
San Francisco Chronicle.
They were celebrating their silver
wedding, and of course the couple were
very happy and very affectionate.
"Yes," said the husband, this is the
only woman ever loved. shall never
forget the first time ever proposed to
her."
"How did you do it?' burst out
young man who had been squeezing
yretty girls hand in the corner. They
all laughed ana he blushed, but the girl
carried it off brayely.
swell, remember as well as If it
were yesterday. 1t was away back in
Maine. We had been out on q picnic,
and she and l got wandering alone.
Don't you remember, my dear?'
The wife nodded and smiled.
"We sat on the trunk of an old tree.
You haven't forgotten, love, have
you?"
The wife nodded again.
''She began writing in the dust with
the point of her paras0l. You recall it,
sweet, don't you?"
The wife nodded again.
''She wrote her name, Minnie and l
said let me put the other name to it.
And took the parasol and wrote my
name-Smith-a it,
Elbow lOvely!" broke out little maid
who was beaming in suspicious way
on tall chap with blonde mustache.
"And she took back the parasol and
wrote below it, No, WON'T And we
went home. You remember it, darling,
| see youdO."
Then he kissed her and the company
murmured Sentimentally, wasn't it
pretty.
The guests had all departed and the
happy couple were left alone.
WASN'T it nice, Minnie, to see all our
friends around us so happy"
Eyes, it was. But, John, that remin-
iscencer'
"Ah, it seems as if it had been only
yesterday"
Eyes, dear; there are only three
things, you're wrong about in that
| story"
Wrong? O, no."
! John, I'm sorry you told that story,
| because | never went to a picnic with
you before we were married; | was
never in Maine in my life, and | never
refused YOU"
"My darling, you must be wrongw
I'm not wrong, Mr.. Smith. / have
an excellent memory, and, although we
have been married twenty-five years, I'd
like to know who that mink Minnie
was. You never told me about her be-
| fOre.''
guess she'll forgive him; but | don't
| know if she'll forget.